07 May, 2017

The Trump/GOP big lie about healthcare exposes their common mission to serve the wealthy

There
is so much fear in America right now about what the Republicans are
calling Healthcare Reform. This is not about healthcare. This is
about money. And it's about the money that the very, very wealthiest
of Americans will be able to save, when the money isn't going into
the ACA and it's going into a tax cut for the very top percentage of
the wealthiest people in this country.

In his show,
The Big Picture, Thom Hartmann speaks with commentator Tim Cavanaugh
and Valerie Ervin of the Working Families Party about the
Republicans’ “big lie” strategy on the GOP health plan.

Ervin gives
the central point:

There is so
much fear in America right now about what the Republicans are calling
Healthcare Reform. This is not about healthcare. This is about money.
And it's about the money that the very, very wealthiest of Americans
will be able to save, when the money isn't going into the ACA and
it's going into a tax cut for the very top percentage of the
wealthiest people in this country.

Hartmann
explains further:

They are
doing this because the top rate, if you earn your living sitting on
your butt around the pool waiting for the dividend check to arrive,
your top tax rate is 20%. That's the capital gains tax, that's for
people who don't work for a living, but invest for a living.

To pay for
Obamacare, pay for the subsidies for millions of middle-class and
working-class Americans, they raise that by 3.8%. That's almost a 20%
tax increase on the roughly 95% of all those capital gains that are
going into the top 2%. So, that's 18-20% tax increase on the top 2%
and they are they are angry about it. The Koch brothers funded all
these creepy Uncle Sam ads, they want to blow this thing up.

If you are
going to give back to those billionaires the 80 or 90 billion dollars
a year - that they are taking from them with that additional 3% tax,
where they are still paying less than the 39% of the working people -
you don't have the money to pay for health insurance and that's why
24 million people could lose their policies.

Despite that
Obamacare was way too far from being the perfect healthcare system
for the majority of the Americans, still, the establishment declared
war to cancel it, exactly because the super-rich would have to pay
some extra taxes for its implementation.

Recall that
Obama was finding difficult to pass even a single legislation for the
health and social security. The visit received from leading bankers
shortly after the announcement of the US government shutdown was
characteristic. Bankers don't pretend anymore because they want to
show clearly who is the "big boss". Well, Trump removed the
final mask: he put Goldman Sachs inside his administration.

It's now
very clear that Donald Trump tricked the voters with his great
theatrical performance. Donald was very good in playing the
'anti-establishment' candidate by staging shows with the media and
the GOP, to appear as the 'annoying guy' who is a 'big headache' for
the establishment. Well, guess what: plutocracy, media, GOP and
Trump, are all on the same side.

This is
another significant reason for the fact that the only one who was
truly undesirable for the establishment to serve as the new president
of the United States, was Bernie Sanders. And that's because the
Socialist candidate would oblige the financial elite to pay even more
taxes, in order to build a reliable and viable healthcare system for
the majority of the American people.